Mitchell Funk
Old Miami Beach at Night - Ethereal Wolfie's Restaurant Neon, 2000
Inkjet Archival Print
40 × 60 × 1 in / 101.6 × 152.4 × 2.5 cm
$ 6,500.00
The ethereal neon sign of a Miami Beach classic glows at night. Customers of Wolfie's Restaurant are seen through a window, while a backlit bus stop lightbox illuminates a single...
The ethereal neon sign of a Miami Beach classic glows at night. Customers of Wolfie's Restaurant are seen through a window, while a backlit bus stop lightbox illuminates a single man in the foreground and becomes silhouetted. Compositionally, street photographer Mitchell Funk weaves signage and people together with the silhouetted man as the center of focus. The whole scene seems imbued with an urban, nocturnal tropical vibe. br Signed, dated and numbered 2\\u002F15, lower right recto. Other sizes are available and the fine art photograph is unframed and printed later. Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper br . Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photography" In 1970 he participated in one the first " Color Photography" shows at a major museum. Brooklyn Museum, show "Images en Couleur" . 1971 Included he was included in the visionary book "Frontiers of Photography" Time Life. Color ! American Photography Transformed. Amon Carter Museum. He has had more than 50 Photography Magazine Covers and has had covers on Newsweek, Fortune, New York Magazine and Life Magazine among others